After years trying to get it off the ground, the musical version of Les Miserables is finally heading for the big screen and it’ll be here this Christmas. However it’s slightly unusual, as while musicals normally having all the singing completed in a studio before the actors head to the set, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) decided to get everyone to sing live. It was a brave decision, and now a new featurette has popped up online focussing on this aspect of the production. It certainly sounds like it could really make a difference to the film, but we’ll have to wait until December to truly find out. Take a look at the featurette above.

Many people were less than impressed with the idea of Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley playing the late musician Jeff Buckley, but now the first trailer gives us a taste for his efforts, which may not be as bad as some had feared. In 1991 Jeff Buckley is an unknown twenty four year-old LA musician and gets invited to participate in a tribute concert in New York City for his late father Tim Buckley, the iconic folk rock star. In the days leading up to the concert, Jeff grapples with his own self doubts and the legacy of his famous father. But with the loving help of an enigmatic young woman working at the concert, he finds the courage to perform at the now legendary St. Ann’s concert, where Jeff discovers his own voice singing his father’s songs, captivating the audience and launching Jeff’s own meteoric career. Simultaneously told in 1991 and 1966, Greetings from Tim Buckley poignantly explores the interweaving paths of a father and son who were among the most beloved singer-songwriters of their generations.

Scott Derrickson creeped us all out with The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and now he’s hoping to do it again by teaming up with the producers of Paranormal Activity for the supernatural thriller Sinister. Ethan Hawke plays a true crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge his family into a nightmarish experience of supernatural horror. It all looks a bit Insidious meets The Ring. The film hits UK cinemas on October 5th.

Boogie Nights actress Heather Graham returns to the world of porn and James Franco goes sleazy lawyer in About Cherry, which now has a new trailer. Here’s the synopsis, ‘Cherry is about Angelina (Ashley Hinshaw), an 18-year-old girl on the verge of finishing high school. Angelina’s family life is difficult. Her mother (Lili Taylor) is an alcoholic and her step-father is violent and unpredictable. One morning her boyfriend (Jonny Weston) suggests she take naked pictures for money. She balks at first but then does the photo shoot, using the money to run-off with her best friend (Dev Patel) to San Francisco. In San Francisco, while cocktailing in a strip club, Angelina meets Frances (James Franco) a well-off lawyer who offers to introduce her to a different kind of world, a place full of expensive dresses and fancy parties. But that world is not as perfect as it first appears and Frances has problems of his own. At the same time Angelina, using the moniker Cherry, has begun exploring the San Francisco porn industry under the direction of Margaret (Heather Graham) a former performer turned adult film director.’ No UK release is yet set.

As we were all promised, today has seen the release of a brand new trailer for The Hobbit, giving us our best look yet at the movie, and suggests the film will have more humour and perhaps a lighter tone than the Lord Of The Rings (which mirrors the difference in feel between the books). It’s certainly familiar and yet still feels new. The movie, which is the first of three Hobbit movies hits UK cinemas on December 14th.

Mike Newell’s Great Expectations was screened at the Toronto Film Festival a few days ago and will close the London Film Festival on October 21st, ahead of its UK release on Friday 30th November 2012. Now a new trailer has arrived, and we’ve embedded a couple of clips from the movie below. Here’s the synopsis: #Young orphan Pip is given a chance to rise from his humble beginnings thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Moving through London’s class ridden world as a gentleman, Pip uses his new found position to pursue the beautiful Estella; a spoilt heiress he’s loved since childhood. Yet the shocking truth behind his great fortune will have devastating consequences for everything he holds dear. Starring an award-winning cast, this British tour de force is directed by the BAFTA winning director of Four Weddings and A Funeral and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mike Newell, and has been written for the big screen by David Nicholls, the acclaimed writer of the global best seller One Day.’